I really want to share with you something amazing that happened today!

There was an Indie Hackers meetup in Dublin, Ireland. I'm from a city called Cork that is about 3 hours drive from Dublin. As soon as I heard Courtland was interviewing John Collison at this meetup, I decided to travel up from Cork to Dublin!

And it was amazing. I learned so much during the interview, and took loads of notes! I even got to speak to John about some of my ideas. I also spoke with Courtlands +1 Cloey about becoming an ambassador for Indie Hacker events in my city!

Here are some of the things that the interview covered:

1) Core attributes of a promising founder worth following: - Progress/trajectory over time - How well they lead a team & - Make the vision happen - Most impressed when someone is way ahead of where you thought they would be when you check up/see them a few months later.

2) Indie Makers have such a benefit of being small, fast, nimble workers in comparison to big companies.

We can easily pivot and vastly change a project of ours. We can change as we learn more about our users.

Big companies can take months/years for even the smallest of pivots.

3) Before you find a product market you can pivot your project as many times as necessary until you find something that works.

Then you only have one thing to do: scale, scale, scale.

4) Be obsessed with the little details. - listen to every single person who uses your product - reply to every single person who emails you about your product - ask them what they like and do not like - iterate your product, make changes, pivot if necessary

Well, you get the idea! John & Courtland had many interesting things to say. So much valuable information in such a short amount of time. I can hardly believe it.

You can read more about it here https://twitter.com/joeytawadrous/status/1060681217216036864